User talk:Greg Corson

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Hi, I am unclear why this link was inappropriate. The book cited is the result of 15 years of factual research on Notre Dame University history from it's founding to present day and includes a full bibliographical list of sources. The book is well known by the University of Notre Dame, endorsed by Fr. Hesburgh and is frequently cited as a historical reference by the Notre Dame Archives. I realize there was a link to the Amazon search page included and was wondering if it was appropriate to include, but saw that there was already such a link in the further reading sections for the Robert E Burns book. I'm not sure why the link is appropriate for that book and not for this one, but if you believe it is inappropriate I could leave it out. It is the only way to get full text search of the book online.

Sorry, I'm new here and was trying to start out with a simple edit that was similar to one that was already there. Greg Corson (talk) 00:22, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

How to add a stub (re: University of Notre Dame)
I've noticed that the block of links at the end of "University of Notre Dame" in the "campus structures" section there is no link to a wikipedia page for "Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes". My mom has done a great deal of research on the grotto and would like to write an article on it for wikipedia. The only problem I'm having is figuring out how to get that large block of references and university of notre dame links (in black and orange boxes) to appear at the end of the stub like it does in the other linked articles like Main Administration Building (University of Notre Dame). I've looked at some of the other stubs that block of stuff links to, but I'm not spotting what needs to be in the article to get it included on the web page.

If you can give me some idea how to get a stub for this started correctly, I'm sure we can handle getting the rest of the article, references and other information.

I'm actually a computer R&D guy for over 35 years and fairly experienced, but not with wikipedia...I just need a little guidance so I don't mess this up.

P.S. Some griefer seems to have edited the "University of Notre Dame' article to change "Notre Dame" to "Notre Lame" in many places. Since I'm new at this I didn't want to play editor and revert it...but someone should. Greg Corson (talk) 08:10, 11 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey Greg. Those long boxed of links are caused by several templates being used on the page.  On Wikipedia a template just means a page set up to be used in a lot of other pages.  For example the first one which has a black border is caused by University of Notre Dame (if you click that link it will take you to the actual template page).  In Wikipedia anything surrounded by curly braces like that means it's a template; there are quite a few at the bottom of the article. You might want to read Your_first_article which goes over some other ideas for starting an article and explains other common Wikipedia terms.  I wouldn't worry too much about the vandal - the University of Notre Dame is watched by quite a few editors, so the vandalism is likely to get reverted quickly.  If you'd like to learn more about how to undo vandalism, warn the person who did it and report them to be blocked if they continue, you might want to check out WP:VAND. Shell   babelfish 08:32, 11 January 2011 (UTC)